iPhone Apps

IOS 5, 5.0.1, 5.0.2

Apr 28, 2011

Crash Report Reveals Apple Testing iOS 5 With Third Party Apps

Jason

FutureTap, developers of iPhone app – Where To? have reported that they’ve received the first iOS 5 crash report for their app yesterday, indicating that not surprisingly Apple has started testing iOS 5 with third

IPHONE APPS

Apr 21, 2011

Untrackerd: Jailbreak Tweak Resolves iPhone Tracking Issue

Jason

Security researchers had revealed yesterday that iPhone and iPad 3G regularly tracks the location of your iOS device and records the co-ordinates along with timestamp in a hidden file. If you are concerned that

IPHONE APPS

Apr 20, 2011

Facebook For iPhone Updated [v3.4.1]; Now Find Your Friends On Your iPhone

Jason

Facebook has released a new version of their iPhone app. Facebook for iPhone v3.4.1 will allow you to find your friends on Facebook using your iPhone, add your phone to your profile and

IPHONE APPS

Apr 13, 2011

Showyou: Flipboard-like App For Videos For iPhone, iPad And iPod Touch

Jason

Remixation – creators of Vodpod, a popular video curation site has just released a new app called Showyou on the App Store for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. It allows you to watch videos that your

IPHONE APPS

Apr 9, 2011

10 EA Games For iPhone And iPod Touch On Sale; Save Up To 67%

Jason

Electronic Arts has slashed the prices of some of their games for iPhone and iPod Touch on the App Store by up to 67%. Popular EA games like Dead Space and newly released iPhone game -

IPAD, IPAD 1

Apr 8, 2011

MT Gestures: Jailbreak App Brings Multitouch Gestures To iPhone, iPad And iPod Touch

Jason

Apple introduced four and five finger multitouch gestures for iPad in iOS 4.3 beta 1 to developers of iOS developer program but had clarified that they won’t be enabled for users. Apple provided

IPHONE APPS

Apr 5, 2011

Facebook For iPhone Updated; v3.4 Brings Ability To Check In To Events, Map View For Places, Unfriending & More

Jason

When Facebook rolled out the upgraded version of the mobile website last week, we were wondering if Facebook will ditch its native iPhone app and focus on developing new features for the mobile web app

IPHONE APPS

Mar 31, 2011

Facebook Launches New Mobile Website

Jason

Facebook has announced that it is rolling out an upgraded version of its mobile website, which it believes will bring the best mobile web experience to mobile devices. Prior to this, Facebook had two websites:

IPHONE APPS

Mar 31, 2011

Twitter Removes Annoying QuickBar From iPhone App For Now

Jason

Twitter has just announced that it has removed the QuickBar from their iPhone app, which floats at the top of the Twitter timeline and displays the latest trends, including promoted trends. Some users are quite

IPHONE APPS

Mar 25, 2011

Celeste: Jailbreak App Allows iPhone, iPad And iPod Touch Users To Transfer Files To Any Device Via Bluetooth

Jason

iPhone comes with Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR technology but it only support the Bluetooth Headset Profile, A2DP and Bluetooth Hands-free Profile 1.5. iPhone users still can’t transfer files between iOS devices or

IPHONE APPS

Mar 24, 2011

U.S. Senators Request Apple To Remove iPhone Apps That Provide DUI Checkpoint Locations From App Store

Jason

A group of US Senators have sent an email to Apple, requesting them to remove iPhone apps that provide DUI (Driving Under Influence) checkpoint (also called “sobriety roadblocks”) locations from the App Store. iPhone apps

IPHONE APPS

Mar 23, 2011

Angry Birds Rio Arrives On The App Store

Jason

Rovio Mobile released Angry Birds Rio yesterday – a sequel to their extremely popular - iPhone game – Angry Birds in collaboration with 20th Century Fox. Here’s what to expect: In Angry Birds Rio, the original Angry

IPHONE APPS

Mar 23, 2011

Tawkon Releases iPhone App On Cydia After Steve Jobs Closes Door With “No Interest” Response

Jason

We’ve written quite a few times about Tawkon – the Israeli mobile software company that had developed an interesting application for the iPhone that tells you the amount of radiation emitted by the iPhone. We

DREAMBOARD

Mar 23, 2011

DreamBoard: Promising Alternative To WinterBoard to Customize iPhone But..

Jason

Winterboard has been one of the best jailbreak apps to customize your iPhone, in fact it's probably one of the reasons why users jailbreak their iPhone. If you’re bored of the iPhone’s

IPHONE APPS

Mar 21, 2011

Google Updates iPhone Apps: Check In With Latitude; Use Places In 30 Languages; Gmail Gets New Connection Bar

Jason

Google continues to rollout new features and improvements to its native iOS apps and iPhone web apps. It has just released a new version of Google Latitude, Google Places for iPhone and has recently introduced

IPAD APPS

Mar 17, 2011

New York Times To Start Charging $15 For iPhone & $20 For iPad Subscriptions

Jason

New York Times has announced that it is launching digital subscriptions in Canada today, which will be available in the US and globally on March 28th. New York Times will also be offering digital subscriptions

IPHONE APPS

Mar 15, 2011

Google Search App For iPhone: Revamped Google Mobile App Gets New Look And Feel

Jason

Google has just released a new version of Google Mobile App. Google has completely redesigned the app and has also given it a new name – Google Search app. The Google Search app comes with features

APPLE NEWS

Mar 15, 2011

Is Apple Crippling iPhone Web Apps?

Jason

The Register reports that websites/iPhone web apps that are launched using the Home screen icon run slower compared to when they are loaded directly in iPhone’s Mobile Safari. The Register claims that this

IPHONE APPS

Mar 15, 2011

Springtomize: Jailbreak App Allows Users To Customize Almost All Aspects Of The iPhone

Jason

Student and iOS Developer, Filippo Bigarella has recently released a jailbreak app called Springtomize, which appears to be a collection of all the customization tweaks available for a jailbroken iPhone. It allows you to customize

IPHONE APPS

Mar 6, 2011

Twitter iPhone App’s Quick Bar Annoys Users, Jailbreak Tweak Twizzler Removes It

Jason

Twitter released a new version of their iPhone and iPad app (version 3.3) earlier in the week. One of the new features introduced in the new version is Quick Bar (iPhone only), which floats

HACKS

Mar 5, 2011

DisplayOut: Jailbreak App Brings iPad 2’s Video Mirroring Feature To iPad, iPhone 4 & iPod Touch 4G

Jason

One of the new features introduced in Apple’s second generation iPad is video mirroring, which allows users to mirror slides, movies, photos or everything else that they see on the iPad 2 screen to

IPHONE APPS

Feb 28, 2011

MobileNotifier: Jailbreak App Aims To Revamp iOS Push Notification System

Jason

Apple’s Push Notification system has been maligned for being intrusive and modal. iOS competitors on the other hand have been doing a good job on this front of late. HP’s webOS for example

IPHONE APPS

Feb 27, 2011

Tiny Wings Dethrones Angry Birds To Become The Top Paid App On The App Store

Jason

Tiny Wings – an iPhone game developed by Andreas Illiger has done the unthinkable by dethrones Angry Birds as the Top paid app in the App Store. Angry Birds had held the top post for almost

IPHONE APPS

Feb 27, 2011

AirMusic App Allows Users To Stream Music From iPhone, iPad And iPod Touch To PS3, XBox 360 And Windows PC

Jason

iOS 4.2.1 brought the ability to stream and watch videos and other digital media content from any iDevice to a television. While this was without doubt one of the coolest offerings in the

IOS APPS

Feb 27, 2011

EveryAir – Remote Desktop App Will Allow Users To Play PS3 Games On The iPhone, iPad And iPod Touch

Jason

Developers at PandaElf Labs have figured out a way to play PS3 games on the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch with a little wrangling of hardware and software. EveryAir is the name of the remote

IPAD APPS

Feb 24, 2011

34 Gameloft Games For iPhone, iPad And iPod Touch On Sale For $0.99

Jason

Gameloft has slashed the prices of 34 games for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch to $0.99 for a limited time. Gameloft announced the surprise sale on their blog: As February comes to an end,

APPLE NEWS

Feb 22, 2011

Steve Jobs: New In-App Subscription Policy For Publishing Apps, Not SaaS Apps

Jason

Yesterday, we reported that Apple had rejected Readability’s iOS application from the App Store as it did not offer in-app subscription option, which had raised concerns if this policy would be applicable to

IOS APPS

Feb 21, 2011

Apple Rejects Readability’s iOS App Due To Lack Of In-App Subscription Option

Jason

Apple has just rejected Readability’s iOS application from the App Store as it did not offer in-app subscription option. Readability is a service, which offers users a clutter and ad-free version of

IPHONE APPS

Feb 8, 2011

Google Releases Google Translate App For iPhone For Free

Jason

Google had released Google Translate for iPhone as a web app that was developed by an engineer in his “20-percent free time”, back in August 2008. But today it has finally released the Google

IPHONE APPS

Feb 7, 2011

Gmail Web App For iPhone, iPad And iPod Touch Gets Priority Inbox

Jason

Google has just announced that Gmail mobile web app now supports Priority Inbox. Google released Priority Inbox beta for the desktop version of Gmail back in August 2010. According to Google: Priority Inbox automatically identifies